SATA vs IDE

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I know SATA is much faster than IDE however I never have used the SATA on my HDD or on my Optical drive.. even thugh they both support it. Can I just unplug the IDE cable and plug in a SATA cable?
 
Do eaither your HDD or your Optical drive have both and IDE and a SATA interface? :eek:

I never heard of them having both. Didn't know it was possible.

Some drives have both the old 4 wire power plug (dunno what it is called) and the newer type SATA power plug.

Are you perhaps looking at the power cables rather than the actual drive interface?
 
nope u need a sata drive to run sata

cables are totally different

do yourself a favour and get a 80gb sata for windows though, big performance gain
 
SO if I buy a SATA HDD... Installation is exactly the same as installing a IDE HDD?
 
nice... I freaking hate jumpers lol.. always need to dig up a card or a twezer to pull em out...
 
yea zulash thats why i dont buy ide anymore, not even dvd writers will i ever buy ide anything again :)
 
IS it possible to transfer EVERYTHING from one HDD to the other? I mean OS and everything? or will it be best to just plug in the new HDD and install the OS on it from scratch? + transfer the rest of my data afterwards.
 
reload rather

you can clone it but you will have to repair windows

i would rather run a fresh install though
 
Zulash said:
IS it possible to transfer EVERYTHING from one HDD to the other? I mean OS and everything? or will it be best to just plug in the new HDD and install the OS on it from scratch? + transfer the rest of my data afterwards.
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Prob better to just reinstall it, will be easier too.
 
really turiko

my experience is that ide installs dont have sata drivers on them and windows install has not loaded them, so you will either have a restarting pc or you will need to repair, now depending on the age of the mobo this is not always a problem but it can be

you could also use acronis to add the sata drivers but thats an expensive program when u could just repair the ide installation ot pick up the sata drive

jumpers where not difficult, they where annoying though
 
killadoob said:
really turiko

my experience is that ide installs dont have sata drivers on them and windows install has not loaded them, so you will either have a restarting pc or you will need to repair, now depending on the age of the mobo this is not always a problem but it can be

you could also use acronis to add the sata drivers but thats an expensive program when u could just repair the ide installation ot pick up the sata drive

jumpers where not difficult, they where annoying though
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Seagate used to have an excellent tool named "DiskWizard", which easliy copied the contents of an entire partition to another, even a larger one. This included even the swap-files and all and worked perfectly when copying from IDE to SATA. Sadly they've since replaced it with Acronis or something similar. The new software does not allow one to copy a whole partition to a differently-sized one (that is, the version which I tested a year ago wouldn't).

To overcome the SATA problem:

- Install the SATA drive into the PC together with the old disk. Boot into Windows from the old disk and after it detects the new hardware, simply install the SATA drivers into your existing OS.

- Then clone your OS partition to the new SATA drive, shut down, and set the new SATA drive as the bootup-drive in the BIOS.

- When you boot up now, Windows will use the SATA drivers to load from the new drive.

This method has worked 100% for me on 2 occasions.
;)
 
i wonder if that was not the problem with my vista image the other day

i imaged vista from a 149 gig raptor part and put it on a 300gb velociraptor part, vista worked until it had to load the desktop and nothing

so i ended up reloading, do you think the problem was that i used a different size partition?
 
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